Apparently, (according to my mother) I have been neglecting my blog. It's been so busy here I'd have it in my mind to write a blog entry, but by the time I got home I hit my pillow and didn't wake up until the morning. But good news! No, it hasn't gotten any cooler here. The opposite. This week the highs were in the 105s and I'm betting by July it'll be consistently over 110. However, instead of working an average of 60-70 hours a week, I'm now at an easy 50! Baby season has taken a slight break. The patient list has gone from over a hundred a day, to a much more manageable 40. Knock on wood that this stays for a bit.
I do know that it won't last forever. Squirrels and opossums have two baby seasons, one in the spring and one in the fall. We just got in 11 new baby opossums today. I really hope they're an anomaly. We've finally stopped getting in raccoons, but we still get at least 2-3 fawns in a day. Again, if you see a fawn, unless you can see active bleeding don't bring them in! Mom's are wandering farther each day to find enough food for their little ones, which means a fawn can be left unattended for over 12 hours. And it's normal.
Ok, enough of my spiel. I'm doing quite well otherwise. The past few weeks I've gotten a lot more confident (and quite good) at hitting veins for blood draws and euthanasias. I've even hit kitten veins which are insanely rolly and tiny! We've gotten a new kitten in which I named Jetson, and he's a gray and white bobtail. So cute! I've also been placing a lot of wing wraps and shoes on birds with broken toes. Unfortunately these skills do not transfer to large animals, whom (who?) I want to work with. And I know I just ended that sentence with a prepositional phrase. Deal.
Also, in the past few weeks, I've officially started the process of applying to vet school. Again. This time I'm only applying to Minnesota and possibly (huge possibly here since I really want to go to MN) Calgary and Saskatchewan (sp?). They specialize in large animal food production, which is probably what I'll end up doing. And I have relatives in Canada. And it's not so BLAZING hot. My one rant about the weather.
Oh, and early happy Father's Day to all the dad's out there reading this. And shame on all the Vancouverites (Vancouverians? Vancouverers?) for your riots in hockey. Those are meant to occur in the rink, not out. Love and miss you all and I hope my next post to be uploading some pics of a deer neuter we did. Until next time!
